GeneralLatex Resume Help Please

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johnation33
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Latex Resume Help Please

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Hi Everyone,

I'm new to LaTeX and I'm having problem using a template resume I've gotten from a linux blog. The two files I'm using are located here:
http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/files/p54-resume/resume.tex
http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/files/p54-resume/resume.cls

Basically, my first problem is getting the name to be centered. According to the resume.cls, this is possible but I don't know what command to type. I've tried \begin{center} but that makes the title center right because the name begins with the main content column. How do I center the name? I've posted the code from resume.cls for your convenience:

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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% You can have multiple style options the legal options ones are:
%
%   centered	the name and address are centered at the top of the
%		page (default)
%
%   line	the name is the left with a horizontal line then 
%		the address to the right
%
%   overlapped	the section titles overlap the body text (default)
%
%   margin	the section titles are to the left of the body text
%		
%   11pt	use 11 point fonts instead of 10 point fonts
%
%   12pt	use 12 point fonts instead of 10 point fonts
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   Commands
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   \Resume	prints the word resume but typeset nicely
%
%   \newsectionwidth{dimen}
%		defines the amount of space the labels extend
%		into the left margin.
%		DO NOT TRY to change any of the dimensions
%		yourself.  You will probably confuse the style file.
%
%   \name{text} defines your name
%
%   \address{text}
%		defines your address
%		this can be called twice if you have two addresses
%		use \\'s to indicate where either line breaks or
%		comas should go
%
%   \opening	this prints your name and address at that spot
%		this is not normally needed, as \begin{resume}
%		does this but is provided just in case you need
%		to do something odd
%
%   \begin{resume} ... \end{resume}
%		all of the resume should go inside of this
%		environment
%
%   \section{text}
%		This prints 'text' in the left hand margin.
%		Its exact placement depends on what the style 
%		options has been set to. (overlapped or margin)
%		You should use \\ to start a new line.	If the
%		style option is margin, the \\ is converted
%		to a space.
%		To use this in any of the list environments, put
%		the \section after the \item[] but before the 
%		text.
%		Eg.
%		\begin{itemize}
%		\item\section{text}
%		text
%		\end{itemize}
%
%   \begin{ncolumn}{n} ... \end{ncolumn}
%		creates a tabular environment with n equally
%		spaced columns.  Separate columns by & and
%		end them with \\
%
%   \begin{position} ... \end{position}
%		this is used to print a job description.  There should
%		be only one job description in it.  Information
%		related to the job (such as title, dates...) will
%		be printed.
%
%   \begin{format} ... \end{format}
%		used to change the default format for the position
%		environment.  Within it the recognized commands are:
%		\title{option}
%		\employer{option}
%		\location{option}
%		\dates{option}
%		\body
%		\\
%		where option is one of l,r,c standing for left, right, center.
%		The format will eventually be used to make several
%		tabular environments and you are defining the number of columns
%		and the placement of text within the columns of the tabulars.
%		Each row is terminated by a \\.  Any number of options can 
%		be on a line, they will each be set in their own columns.
%		Any of the options except \body may be left out.
%
%		Eg.
%		\begin{format}
%		\title{l}\employer{r}\\
%		\dates{r}\\
%		\body\\
%		\location{l}\\
%		\end{format}
%
%		In this example the title and employer information
%		are set in 2 columns left justified and right justified
%		respectively.  Then the date is set right justified.
%		Then the body is set.  Then the location is set left
%		justified.
%
% \employer{text}
% \title{text}
% \dates{text}
% \location{text}
%		declare text for the next invocation of the position
%		environment
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Glue
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% sectionskip	the amount of horizontal before a section
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Dimensions
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% sectionwidth	the amount that the section titles go in the
%		left margin
%
% resumewidth	the width of the total resume from the left
%		margin to the right.  Don't use textwidth
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Definitions
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% sectionfont	the font used to print section titles
%		use \renewcommand to change it
%
% namefont	the font used to print your name
%		use \renewcommand to change it
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% THINGS TO DO
%
% add lm,rm options to format style to allow things to be placed
% in the left or right margin respectivly
%
% add capability so that \body doesn't have to be proceeded (followed)
% by a \\ allowing part of the description (eg. location) to be the
% first (last) thing of the body
%
% clean up the list building procedures
%
% write docs to tell people how to use this

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]
\ProvidesClass{resume}[2000/05/19 v1.4b Resume class]

%\DeclareOption{11pt}{\renewcommand\@ptsize{1}}
%\DeclareOption{12pt}{\renewcommand\@ptsize{2}}

\PassOptionsToClass{11pt,12pt}{article}
\LoadClassWithOptions{article}

\newif\if@line
\newif\if@margin

\DeclareOption{line}{\@linetrue}
\DeclareOption{centered}{\@linefalse}

\DeclareOption{margin}{\@margintrue}
\DeclareOption{overlapped}{\@marginfalse}

\ExecuteOptions{overlapped,centered}
\ProcessOptions\relax

\nofiles	     % resume's don't need .aux files


\newtoks\tabular@text		    % holds the current list being processed
\newtoks\tabular@head		    % holds the head tabular list
\newtoks\tabular@tail		    % holds the tail tabular list
\newtoks\@ta			    % used by \@append
\newtoks\undefined@token\undefined@token={}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% prints a centered name with the address centered
% or the two address on opposite sides of the page
%
\def\@printcentername{\begingroup
  % print the name centered
  \leavevmode\hbox to \textwidth{\hfil\@tablebox{\namefont\@name}\hfil}\par
  \@ifundefined{@addressone}{%
    % do nothing
  }{%
    \@ifundefined{@addresstwo}{
      % only one address
      \leavevmode\hbox to \textwidth{\hfil\@tablebox{\@addressone}\hfil}\par
    }{
      % two addresses
      \leavevmode\hbox to \textwidth{\@tablebox{\@addressone}\hfil
				     \@tablebox{\@addresstwo}}\par
    }%
  }%
\endgroup}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% this is used to print the name and address at the top of
% the page with a hline in between
%
\def\namefont{\large\bf}
\def\@linename{\begingroup
  \def\\{, }
  {\namefont\@name}
  \vskip 2pt
  \fullline
  \vskip 2pt
  % where do you live?
  \@ifundefined{@addressone}{%
    % do nothing
  }{%
    \leavevmode\hbox to \textwidth
      {\hfill\vbox{\hbox{\@addressone}
		   \hbox{\@addresstwo}
		  }%
      }\par
  }
\endgroup}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% HEADINGS:
% There are two types of headings:
% 1) one with the name centered and the address centered or
%    in the left and right side if there are two address
% 2) one where the name is in the upper left corner 
%    the a line accross the paper
%    then the address all on one line in the right corner
%    the second address will be directly below the first if defined
%
\let\print@name\relax
\def\ds@centered{\ifx\print@name\relax\let\print@name\@printcentername\fi}
\def\ds@line{\ifx\print@name\relax\let\print@name\@linename\fi}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Use this to set the sectionwidth.
% It adjust the width of the text as well as the hoffset
% You probably shouldn't touch any of the size paramaters
% unless you really understand all of this but it is not
% hard.  Either way, it can only be executed once
%
\def\sectionfont{\bf}
\newdimen\sectionwidth
\newskip\sectionskip
\newdimen\resumewidth

\resumewidth=6.5in
\sectionskip=3.5ex plus 1ex minus -.2ex % values stolen from LaTeX

\def\newsectionwidth#1{%
		     \sectionwidth=#1
		     \textwidth=\resumewidth
		     \advance\textwidth-\sectionwidth
		     \hsize=\textwidth
		     \hoffset=\sectionwidth
}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% This is for sectiontitles that are entirely in the left margin.
% multiline sectiontitles are permited and will be broken by
% \TeX{} to fit into a box \verb|\sectionwidth| wide.  It is advised
% that \verb|\\| be used to break the lines by hand as \TeX{} will
% probably not do what you want.
%
% When using this with {\tt tabbing} and {\tt list} (or anything
% that is made out of {\tt list}) put the \section's inside of
% the \verb|\begin{}|  and the \verb|\item|Eg.
% \begin{verbatim}
% \begin{trivlist}
% \item[]
% \section{foo}
% text
% \end{trivlist}
% \end{verbatim}
%
\def\boxed@sectiontitle#1{%
  % this macro may be called in a tabular.  Special code must be written
  % to accomodate this.  In LaTeX, a tabular is made out of hboxes.
  % TeX never goes into horizontal mode because of this; it only
  % gets into vertical mode and restricted horizontal mode.  Certain 
  % indenting problems must be handled because of this.  They
  % are delt with at the end of this routine.
  % It is also necessary to close the hbox that was created before
  % the \section and create a new one when this macro has ended.
  % This macro therefore simulates a \kill, so that any text before
  % the \section not be printed.  The proper use is therefore
  % ...
  % text\\
  % \section{foo}
  % more text\\
  % ...
  \ifx\\\@tabcr    % is this in a tabular? (this *should* work but is a cludge)
    \@stopfield    % the is the first part of a \kill
   \else
     \@@par	     % This will end the previous paragraph if needed and
		   % go into vertical mode.  If this was already in
		   % vertical mode then the \par does nothing.

  \fi
  \begingroup
  \everypar={}%
  \def\par{\@@par}%
  \let\\=\@normalcr
  \addpenalty{\@secpenalty} % this would be a good place for a page break
			    % \@secpenalty is what LaTeX uses before its
			    % section's.  It happens to be -300
  \addvspace{\sectionskip}  % put in a bit of glue
  % The following hbox will be contributed to the page list without going
  % into horizontal mode.  Therefore, any \parindent's, \parshape's, \leftskip
  % will be ignored but \hoffset's are not.  The result is that the box will
  % only by \hoffset. This is what I want
  \hbox to 0pt{%
    \hss	 % this is an llap.  In other words, this glue
		 % will shrink by the width of the stuff in the vbox
		 % (\sectionwidth) into the left margin and then
		 % insert the contents of the vbox.
    \vtop to 0pt{% make a 0pt height paragraph, with the baseline at the
		 % lined up with the baseline of the first box in the list
      \leftskip=0pt
      \hsize=\sectionwidth
      \textwidth=\sectionwidth
      \raggedright     % you don't want this filled out to the right margin
      \sectionfont
      #1\vss	       % Go into horizontal mode; do the paragraph;
		       % go into vertical mode; add some negative glue 
		       % to give a box of 0pt height and depth
    }%
  }%
  \addpenalty{-\@secpenalty} % this would be a bad place for a page break
  \vskip-\baselineskip % when the next box is processed, baselineskip glue
		       % glue will be added (the box has no depth because of
		       % the \vss; therefore, we don't have to worry about
		       % \lineskiplimit).  This -\baselineskip glue
		       % is to undo this.  \nointerlineskip doesn't
		       % work because the baseline of this line would be lined
		       % up with the top of the top of the next box.  We
		       % want the baselines lined up.
		       %
		       % It may have been possible to do this by forcing the
		       % baseline of this box to be the top of the box but
		       % then the interline skip between this box and the
		       % previous box would be off as the baselines of the
		       % this box (the one that being made above) and the
		       % previous line would be separated by \baselineskip
		       % (probably, it may be separted by the depth of the
		       % previous box + \lineskip) but as the baseline of
		       % this box has been moved to the top, the box's would
		       % separted by to much glue.  The exact amount being
		       % the height of this box.
  \endgroup
  \ifx\\\@tabcr   % is this in a tabular? (this *should* work but is a cludge)
    % this is the second part of the \kill; it starts the next tabbing line
    % Because this routine will never get into paragraph mode when used in
    % tabbing the \parskip that is discussed below will never be inserted.
    % Therefore it should not be negated as done below.
    \@startline
    \ignorespaces
  \else
    \vskip-\parskip    % The next thing to be contributed will be a paragraph.
		       % Right before being contributed though a \vskip\parskip
		       % will be inserted.  This is to negate it.
		       %
		       % I do consider this to be a bit of a cludge but
		       % I can not find a way to write \unskipfutureskip
		       % or a way to make TeX think that nothing has
		       % been contributed to the page list.
  \fi
}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% This is for sectiontitles that are entirely above the section text
%
\def\unboxed@sectiontitle#1{%
  \ifx\\\@tabcr % see boxed@sectiontitle for explation
    \@stopfield
   \else
     \@@par
  \fi
  \begingroup
  \everypar={}%
  \def\par{\@@par}%
  \def\\{ }
  \addpenalty{\@secpenalty}
  \addvspace{\sectionskip}
  \hbox to 0pt{\hss\hbox to \sectionwidth{\sectionfont#1\hss}}
  \addpenalty{-\@secpenalty} % this would be a bad place for a page break
  \endgroup
  \ifx\\\@tabcr   % see boxed@sectiontitle for explation
    \@startline
  \else
    \vskip-\parskip
  \fi
  \ignorespaces
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% There are two types of section headings:
% 1) the section heading is all on one line and directly
%    below it, is the body of the text
% 2) the section heading is entirely in the left margin
%    (possibly taking multiple lines) with the body of
%    the text next to it
%
\let\@@section\relax
\def\ds@overlapped{\ifx\@@section\relax\newsectionwidth{0.5in}\let
  \@@section\unboxed@sectiontitle\fi}
\def\ds@margin{\ifx\@@section\relax\newsectionwidth{1.3in}\let
  \@@section\boxed@sectiontitle\fi}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% DEFAULTS: (some of them)
%
% centered name
% overlapped section titles
%
% format is:
%    title	 employer
%    location	 dates
%    body
% with everything in the left of its column

%\input article.sty

\if@line\ds@line\else\ds@centered\fi
\if@margin\ds@margin\else\ds@overlapped\fi


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% typeset resume all nice and pretty
%
\def\Resume{{R\'{e}sum\'{e}}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% makes a line of width \textwidth starting at -\hoffset
%
\def\fullline{		% hrules only listen to \hoffset
  \nointerlineskip	% so I have this code	  
  \moveleft\hoffset\vbox{\hrule width\textwidth} 
  \nointerlineskip
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% create a multiline box.
%
\def\@tablebox#1{\begin{tabular}[t]{@{}l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}}#1\end{tabular}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% use this to define your name
%
\def\name#1{\def\@name{#1}}

\def\@name{}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% use this to define your address, this may be called more than once.
%
\let\@addressone\relax
\let\@addresstwo\relax

\def\address#1{
  \@ifundefined{@addressone}{\def\@addressone{#1}}{\def\@addresstwo{#1}}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% if you want to print your name and address is a slightly
% different format than sugessted, then this can be used
% to place it exactly where you want
%
\def\opening{\def\@opening{}
  \begingroup
  \leftskip=-\hoffset	     % I use leftskip to move things to the left as 
  \advance\textwidth\hoffset % changing hoffset doesn't work. But this
  \hsize=\textwidth	     % doesn't really work as hboxes are rules
			     % are unaffeted
  \let\par=\@@par
  \parindent=0pt
  \parskip=0pt
  \print@name
  \endgroup
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% all of the resume goes in the resume environment
%
\newenvironment{resume}{\begingroup
		       \@ifundefined{@opening}{\opening}{}
}{\endgroup}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% gives you a tabular environment with n equally spaced columns
% \begin{ncolumn}{#} ... \end{ncolumn}
%
% The p option of LaTeX is broken in all but the newest verion
% of latex.tex, this is how to fix it
%
\def\@endpbox{\par\egroup\hfil}
\let\@@endpbox=\@endpbox

\newdimen\@columnwidth	  % the width of each column equal to
\def\ncolumn#1{%
  % \@columnwidth = \textwidth / #1
  \@columnwidth=\textwidth \divide\@columnwidth by #1
  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}[t]%
	{*{#1}{@{}p{\@columnwidth}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}}}
}

\def\endncolumn{\end{tabular*}}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   \employer{text} defines employer to be text
%   \location{text} defines location to be text
%   \dates{text}    defines dates    to be text
%   \title{text}    defines title    to be text
%   \body
%

\def\employer#1{\def\@employer{\print@employer{#1}}}
\def\location#1{\def\@location{\print@location{#1}}}
\def\dates#1{\def\@dates{\print@dates{#1}}}
\def\title#1{\def\@title{\print@title{#1}}}

\let\l@justify\raggedright
\let\r@justify\raggedleft
\let\c@justify\centering


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% \@format{name}{justify}
% will define \print@#1 to print it's one argument 
% justified according to #2 which can be
%	  l = left
%	  r = right
%	  c = center
%
% eg.
%    \@format{employer}{c}
%    is the same as \def\print@employer#1{{\centering #1\par}}
%
\def\@format#1#2{%
  \expandafter\gdef\csname print@#1\endcsname##1{%
    {\csname#2@justify\endcsname##1\par}}
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% this is used to define how the position environment should
% formated.
%
% \begin{format} positioning text \end{format}
% where positioning text may be
%  \employer{pos}
%  \location{pos}
%  \dates{pos}
%  \title{pos}
%  \body	    (for the body of the position environment)
%   where pos is 
%     l for left
%     r for right
%     c for center
% use \\ to break the line
% you don't have to use all of the options.
% on any one line, you should indicate what you want on that line
% and where it should go within its column.
% eg.
% the following prints the employer in the left with the location
% centered within that its column.  It then prints the date on the
% right.  Then it prints the body of the position environment. Then
% it prints the title centered within its column; as there is only
% one column here it is really just centered.
%
% \begin{format}
% \employer{l}\location{c}\\
% \dates{r}\\
% \body\\
% \title{c}\\
% \end{format}

\newcounter{numberofcolumns}
\newenvironment{format}{%
  \def\end@line@head{\append@tabular@head{tabular@text}\tabular@text={}%
    \c@numberofcolumns 0}
  \def\end@line@tail{\append@tabular@tail{tabular@text}\tabular@text={}%
    \c@numberofcolumns 0}
  \tabular@text={}
  \tabular@head={}
  \tabular@tail={}
  \c@numberofcolumns 0
  \let\\=\end@line@head
  \def\employer##1{\advance\c@numberofcolumns 1
		   \@format{employer}{##1}
		   \append@tabular@text{employer}}
  \def\location##1{\advance\c@numberofcolumns 1
		   \@format{location}{##1}
		   \append@tabular@text{location}}
  \def\dates##1{\advance\c@numberofcolumns 1
		\@format{dates}{##1}
		\append@tabular@text{dates}}
  \def\title##1{\advance\c@numberofcolumns 1
		 \@format{title}{##1}
		\append@tabular@text{title}}
  \def\body{\iftoks\tabular@head\undefined@token\then
	    \else
	      \@append{\noexpand\\}\to\tabular@head
	    \skotfi
	    \let\\=\end@line@tail}}{}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%taken from page 378 of TeXbook but freely hacked
%
% appends the expansion of #1 to the token list #2

\def\@append#1\to#2{%
  \@ta=\expandafter{#1}%
  \xdef\@append@temp{\the#2\the\@ta}
  \global#2=\expandafter{\@append@temp}%
}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% CHAA006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
% texhax.88.078
% is used to see if two token lists are equal
% there must be a better way
%

\let \then = \empty
\def \iftoks #1#2\then #3\else #4\skotfi{
		\edef \1{\the #1}
		\edef \2{\the #2}
		\ifx \1\2\then #3\else #4\fi}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% \append@tabular@text{command}
%
% appends command to the end of \tabular@text.
% NOTE: command MUST be a command but without the \
%	Eg. \append@tabular@text{relax}
%
% used to define \tabular@text for the tabular environment
% used by append@tabular@head and append@tabular@tail
%

\def\append@tabular@text#1{%
\iftoks\tabular@text\undefined@token\then
  \global\tabular@text=\expandafter{\csname @#1\endcsname}
\else
  \@append{&}\to\tabular@text
  \@append{\csname @#1\endcsname}\to\tabular@text
\skotfi
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% append@tabular@head
%
% appends command to the end of \tabular@text@head
% NOTE: command MUST be a command but without the \
%	Eg. \append@tabular@head{relax}
%
% used to define \tabular@head for the tabular environment
% used by the position environment
%
\def\append@tabular@head#1{%
  \ifnum\the\c@numberofcolumns=0\relax
  \else
    \iftoks\tabular@head\undefined@token\then
      \relax
    \else
      \@append{\noexpand\\}\to\tabular@head
      \@append{\noexpand\penalty-\@secpenalty}\to\tabular@head
    \skotfi
    \@append{\noexpand\begin{ncolumn}}\to\tabular@head
    \@append{\expandafter{\the\c@numberofcolumns}}\to\tabular@head
    \@append{\the\csname#1\endcsname}\to\tabular@head
    \@append{\noexpand\end{ncolumn}}\to\tabular@head
  \fi
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% append@tabular@tail
%
% appends command to the end of \tabular@text@htail
% NOTE: command MUST be a command but without the \
%	Eg. \append@tabular@tail{relax}
%
% used to define \tabular@tail for the tabular environment
% used by the position environment
%
\def\append@tabular@tail#1{%
  \ifnum\the\c@numberofcolumns=0\relax
  \else
    \iftoks\tabular@tail\undefined@token\then
    \else
      \@append{\noexpand\\}\to\tabular@tail
      \@append{\noexpand\penalty-\@secpenalty}\to\tabular@tail
    \skotfi
    \@append{\noexpand\begin{ncolumn}}\to\tabular@tail
    \@append{\expandafter{\the\c@numberofcolumns}}\to\tabular@tail
    \@append{\the\csname#1\endcsname}\to\tabular@tail
    \@append{\noexpand\end{ncolumn}}\to\tabular@tail
  \fi
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% put the actual job descriptions here
% \begin{postion} ... \end{position}
% in the ... describe the position.
% don't put the \dates \location etc in here. define them before hand
\newenvironment{position}%
  {%
   \begingroup
     \par
       \the\tabular@head
%     \addpenalty{-\@secpenalty}% bad place for a page break
     \penalty -\@secpenalty % bad place for a page break
     \penalty 10000
     \ignorespaces
  }{%
       \the\tabular@tail
%     \addpenalty{\@secpenalty}% good place for a page break
     \penalty \@secpenalty % good place for a page break
    \endgroup
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% DEFAULTS: (the rest of them)
%
% centered name
% overlapped section titles
%
% format is:
%    title	 employer
%    location	 dates
%    body
% with everything in the left of its column

\@secpenalty = -500
\topmargin 0pt
\headheight 0pt
\headsep 0pt
\textheight 9in
\parindent 0pt
\topmargin 0in
\oddsidemargin 0pt
\evensidemargin 0pt
\marginparwidth 0pt
\parindent 0pt
\parskip \baselineskip
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\def\@listI{\leftmargin\leftmargini
\topsep 0pt 
\parskip 0pt
\partopsep 10pt plus 2pt
\parsep 2pt plus 2pt
\itemsep \parsep}

\pagestyle{empty}  % don't want page numbers

\begin{format}
\title{l}\employer{r}\\
\location{l}\dates{r}\\
\body\\
\end{format}

\let\section\@@section

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% @brief    LaTeX2e Resume Style Config
% @url      http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/?p=54
% @date     Decemebr 2007
% @author   Kamil K Wojcicki
% @info     This a fusion of resume template code by Chris Paciorek
%           (url: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex_template_creating_CV_.html)
%           and res.cls class by Michael DeCorte.
%           I have merged these for educational purposes only.

\oddsidemargin -11mm
\evensidemargin -11mm
\textwidth=150mm
\itemsep=0cm
\parsep=0cm
\topmargin -5mm
\textheight 265mm

\newenvironment{list1}{
  \begin{list}{\ding{113}}{%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0in}
      \setlength{\parsep}{0in} \setlength{\parskip}{0in}
      \setlength{\topsep}{0in} \setlength{\partopsep}{0in} 
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{0in}}}{\end{list}}

\newenvironment{list2}{
  \begin{list}{$\bullet$}{%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0in}
      \setlength{\parsep}{0in} \setlength{\parskip}{0in}
      \setlength{\topsep}{0in} \setlength{\partopsep}{0in} 
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{0.25in}}}{\end{list}}

%\newcommand{\mysidestyle}{\footnotesize\sc}
\newcommand{\mysidestyle}{\small\sc}
\newcommand{\myheadingstyle}{\sl}
\newcommand{\mysubheadingstyle}{\sl}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
The beginning of my tex document looks like this:

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\documentclass[margin,line]{resume}
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-.375in}
% Small bullet, for use in text mode. Nicer than full sized bullet, in my opinion
\newcommand{\sbullet}{\,\begin{picture}(1,1)(0,-3)\circle*{3}\end{picture}\ }
\begin{document}

{\fontspec{Adobe Garamond Pro}
{\Large \textbf{ {\sc John James}}  \\
\footnotesize{\sc Alfred Hall  \sbullet 29 Bradstreet \sbullet
New York, NY 10023 \sbullet\vspace{-0.09in}
222-222-2222 \sbullet
 12ssss@sssssss.edu }\vspace{-0.19in}
\rule{179mm}{.7pt}
\rule{179mm}{.7pt}}}
}
\vspace{0.355in}
\begin{resume}
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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi John,

try it with \centering:

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{\Large\textsc{{\centering John James\\}}
Don't use \sc, that command is obsolete, use \textsc or \scshape instead.

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Re: Latex Resume Help Please

Post by johnation33 »

Thanks for your reply:

I tried textsc and scshape and for some reason small caps doesn't work. only /sc seems to work, is this because I'm using XeTex to compile rather than LateX?

I'm also having another problem--the \section{} function creates a new header on the left side of the resume, but its width is controlled by again, the resume.cls document. I don't understand this document at all, I don't know what value to modify to increase the width of the column of the section, otherwise when I increase the font for a long word such as "Work Experience" it automatically word wraps.

I tried centering, but centering doesn't have an effect at all. This is getting really frustrating :(

Would anyone be willing to examine my document to see what I'm doing wrong? It's attached.

I've also attached a pdf of my tex document to show you what's wrong.
1. Work Experience (Experience should be on the same line as work)
2. Name won't center, double line alignment all off
3. Can't get small caps to work unless \sc obsolete command, why is this bad just wondering?
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Just to show what I'm trying to replicate I've attached a model resume I'm trying to design using TeX (the resume was made in msword)
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Hi John,
johnation33 wrote: I tried textsc and scshape and for some reason small caps doesn't work. only /sc seems to work, is this because I'm using XeTex to compile rather than LateX?
Probably there's just no bold typeface with small caps. Check the logfile for error messages or just remove \textbf (\bfseries) to get small caps with \textsc (\scshape). At least it should look like bold and \sc.

Regarding the other questions I will have a look at the files when I have time, perhaps more forum users will test the files in the meantime and join the discussion.

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Post by johnation33 »

I've tried removing the textbf{} but no change. For some reason textsc{} doesn't work for me. I don't know why. Also, since my goal is to replicate the pdf attached and I have the word document, is it possible to just convert the word document to latex (have all the layout done for me) so I won't have to spend two weeks to make the layout and font just right? I've tried using a free word-Latex converter i downloaded and it didnt seemed to work.

Thanks for your help! I have to have this resume completed by august so I want to be able to finish this within this month if possible so help with the problems is appreciated.

Just wondering, would it be faster to just start a new tex document from scratch to emulate the sampletemplate pdf or continue as I am right now modifying an tex resume template?
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Post by johnation33 »

also is it possible to bold and small caps a text? It seems I can only do one or the either, but I need to do both :( Any workarounds?
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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi John,
johnation33 wrote:also is it possible to bold and small caps a text? It seems I can only do one or the either, but I need to do both :( Any workarounds?
It could work with T1 font encoding:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\textbf{\textsc{Bold Small Caps}}
\end{document}
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Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi John,
johnation33 wrote: Just wondering, would it be faster to just start a new tex document from scratch to emulate the sampletemplate pdf or continue as I am right now modifying an tex resume template?
My choice would be to create a new tex document. It doesn't look very difficult. The key is to create a tabular environment for placing the years and the description of the work, further some changes in size and shape of the font. This way you would know what you are doing instead of reusing a template without to understand its code.

Some time ago I've written a resume for a friend, and I remember I just used tabular, placed bullets inside a tabular column (no itemize list) and further did some small layout corrections.

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